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**[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/401601.html Mesopotamia 1920-21] Large numbers of troops from India were sent to deal with a revolt in 1920
**[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/481622.html The fight to relieve Rumaithah: A close run thing: Mesopotamia, July 1920]
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/mesopotamia.htm Mesopotamia 1917-1918] from [http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion: The London Regiment] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130818120929/http://25thlondon.com/mesopotamia.htm archive.org link])
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140508054910/http://www.bcmh.org.uk/archive/conferences/2012MespotUlrichsen.pdf "Learning The Hard Way: The Indian Army In Mesopotamia, 1914-1918"] by Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, BCMH Summer Conference 2012 – Indian Armies (The British Commission for Military History bcmh.org.uk, now an archived webpage.)
*"The Mesopotamian Front! As Observed by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Davis, U.S. Cavalry, 1918". ''Armor'' March-April 2003, pages 25- 35. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fciar.org%2Fttk%2Fmbt%2Farmor%2Farmor-magazine%2Farmor-mag.2003.ma%2F2daughtery03.pdf html version], [http://ciar.org/ttk/mbt/armor/armor-magazine/armor-mag.2003.ma/2daughtery03.pdf pdf]
*[http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll2/id/77/rec/68 ''Forgotten Airwar: Airpower in the Mesopotamian Campaign''] by Peter J Lambert, 2003 Master of Military Art and Science Thesis, Command and General Staff College (CGSC) Fort Leavenworth, KS. Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library
*[http://past.oxfordjournals.org/content/197/1/211.full#fn-112 "Developing Iraq: Britain, India and the Redemption of Empire and Technology in the First World War"] by Priya Satia ''Past & Present'' (2007) Volume 197, Issue 1, pages 211-255
*[http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,645563.0.html A collection of WW1 photographs, most probably taken in Mesopotamia]. Includes a few images of Indian soldiers. rootschat.com Forum thread.
*''En-Dor Unveiled : The Story behind The Road to En-dor'' by Tony Craven Walker February 2014. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hesperuspress.com%2Fthe-road-to-en-dor%2Fdownloads%2FEndorUnveiled.pdf html version], [https://www.hesperuspress.com/the-road-to-en-dor/downloads/EndorUnveiled.pdf pdf], [http://www.hesperuspress.com/the-road-to-en-dor/download-free-ebook.htm link to other downloads] hesperuspress.com. Retrieved 26 October 2014. Contains correspondence from E H Jones, refer "Historical books online" below. He was a member of the Volunteer Artillery Battery (Rangoon Contingent). Very likely this was , or was connected with, the [[Rangoon Port Defence Volunteer Corps]], which had an Artillery section.
*Articles by Amitav Ghosh: "Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-‘Ain, 1916-18". It is based on an account written by an Indian member of the Bengal Ambulance Corps (BAC), who became a prisoner after the fall of Kut. and ended up in the prison camps of Ras al-'Ain, in northern Syria, in 1916. “The reason the story has survived is that one of the Indian prisoners happened to write about about his war experiences forty years later. His name was Sisir Sarbadhikari and his book Abhi Le Baghdad (or On To Baghdad) appeared in 1958” It is in 18 parts, in reverse order, consisting of two pages. Scroll to the bottom of [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=23&paged=2 this page] for part 1. Scroll to the bottom of [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=23 this page] to continue. ( archive.org links [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509003716/http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=23&paged=2 1] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509040810/http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=23 2]) The earlier part of the memoir, from joining up in Calcutta to the fall of Kut is described in [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=12 "On to Baghdad"]. Scroll to the bottom of the page for part 1
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